Sewing-machine table.



PATENTED JUNE 12, 1906. J. H. THOMPSON. SEWING MACHINE TABLE.

APPLICATION FILED AUGJZ. 1905.

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PATENTED JUNE 12, 1906.

J. H. THOMPSON. SEWING MACHINE TABLE.

APPLIGATION FILED AUG22.1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE v JOSEPH HILL THOMPSON, OF PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JOHN MURPHY, OF PASSAIG, NEW JERSEY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 1906.

Application filed August 22, 1905. Serial No. 275,209.

To all whom it potty concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH HILL THOMP- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Passaic, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sewing- Machine Tables and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objects of this invention are more particularly to facilitate the work of hemstitching handkerchiefs, to save or economize labor and enable a single operator to do a larger quantity of work, to prevent the loss of time'incident to the operations heretofore employed, and to obtain other advantages and results, some of which may be hereinafter referred to in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved sewing-machine table and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is an end view of my improved sewing-machine table. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same, and Fig. 3 is a front elevation thereof, the nearer machines being broken away and shown partly in broken lines to disclose the heads of the farther machines.

In said drawings, 5 indicates the supporting standards or legs, and 6 the top board of the table upon which the sewing-machines 7 are mounted in any usual manner, said top board being open, as at 8, to receive the baseplate 9 of the sewing-machine, and the operating mechanisms having bearings on said base-plate.

Heretofore because of the slowness of the operating movements of the handkerchiefhemstitching machines a single operator attending its operations has not been kept busy, and consequently her time has to a considerable extent been wasted, so that being paid by the piece her wages have been low and her output restricted. To enable this output to be increased without undue strain opon the operator, I have provided an upper table 61 on which a second machine 7 can be mounted in front of each operator, both machines being convenient for control and both being operable simultaneously, so that the one operator can oversee and manage the two hemstitching operations instead of one, as heretofore. To this end I have erected above the top board 6 a second board 61, which is similar in construction to the top board 6. This is held on standards 51, made in sections 52 53, adjustable in their relations to one another to enable the said board 61 to be leveled or otherwise adjusted with respect to the board 6, the sections being joined or clamped together by bolts or clamps 54. In front of said boards 6, 61,ex tending out from the forward edge thereof toward the operator, are secured upwardlyinclined tablets 11, on which the handkerchiefs to be hemmed are spread and held at an inclination convenient to be run into the machines, the movement being helped by gravity and without the continuous care of the operator. Said forwardlyprojecting tablets are held securely in position by brackets 12, screwed or otherwise fastened beneath the top boards and projecting forwardly therefrom and upwardly, as shown in Fig. 1. Said tablets are not directly in front, but stationed at one side of the sewingmachines 7, the relation being such that the edge of the handkerchief to be hemmed will pass beneath the needle as said handkerchief travels down the inclined surface of the tablet on which it is spread. The movement of the handkerchief is facilitated by gravity, and thus continuous attention is not demanded, but ample time is allowed for the free control of the two operations referred to.

The plurality of machines, one disposed vertically above the other, can be repeated on the opposite side of the framework, as indicated in Fig. 2, or in lateral series to any extent desired, as will be understood.

Having thus described the invention, what I do claim as new is An improved sewing-machine table comprising a lower table, a trough transversely arranged in the center of the lower table, an upper table adjustably supported on the lower table and having a centrally-arranged transverse opening, a machine on each side I In testimony that I claim the foregoing I of each table, the machines on one side being l have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of diagonally arranged to the machines on the I August, 1905.

other side, and a tablet on each side of each JOSEPH HILL THOMPSON. table opposite the machine on the other side, Witnesses: the product of all the machines being fed CHARLES H. PELL,

into the trough of the lower table. 1 M. V. DOYLE. 

